Rational psychology is a part of mathematics, and is concerned with
mathematical and conceptual analysis of psychological notions. It is
not the study of rationality in the sense of economics and
decision theory. The aim is instead to find the most apt ways of
understanding all agents, whether rational or irrational. For more
detail, see the manifesto ``What
is Rational Psychology? Toward a modern mental philosophy''.

While the name Rational Psychology was used by William James and
others in earlier times, mainly as a synonym for philosophical
psychology before the advent of modern mathematical logic, Jon Doyle
reintroduced the term in 1982 as the psychological correspondent of
the field of Rational Mechanics, the field of Isaac Newton, Clifford
Truesdell, and others, seeking to apply the perspective so successful
in modern mechanics to the understanding of psychology and economics.

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